Am 28.03.2011 um 16:49 schrieb Timothy Murphy:
I'm trying to install CentOS-5.5 on my new HP micro-server, which has no CD drive.
I've set up cobbler and cobbler-web on my old server, and can access cobbler-web from my laptop.
I have 3 queries about the installation.
- Is there any advantage is using the 64-bit CentOS
rather than 32-bit?
I'd use 32bit if you are sure you are never going to use more than 2GB RAM. Ever.
- The CentOS OS seems to be available in 7 or 8 CDs.
(I tried downloading the DVD ISO with ktorrent, but this was a complete failure.
I don't know what you did, but when I downloaded the torrent, it created only a handful of files. The DVD ISOs are available on my local mirror, so they should be elsewhere, too.
It started OK, but then created literally thousands of links to one file, which brought my server down, and left it in a state which was quite hard to clean up.)
But how exactly do I "cobbler import" these? I see that for Fedora on my laptop I ran sudo cobbler import --path=/mnt/dvd --name=F14-i386
Download the DVDs and import them.